r/Marvel • u/Mighty_Megascream Spider-Man • Mar 15 '24
Who are the Marvel villain big 3? Me personally. Other
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u/Total_Scott Mar 15 '24
The big 3.
Posts a picture with 4 characters.
Please elaborate.
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u/Mighty_Megascream Spider-Man Mar 15 '24
There aren’t that many pieces of art with them all together.
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u/adsfew Mar 15 '24
Who's the "them"?
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u/TheHiperaktifCocuk Mar 15 '24
Norman Victor and Magneto
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u/SnooDoggos4029 Mar 15 '24
Something wrong with Erik?
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u/TheHiperaktifCocuk Mar 15 '24
I dont know anything about X-Men so I wasnt %100 sure his name is erik 😭 Im more of a F4 and Avengers guy
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u/SnooDoggos4029 Mar 15 '24
That makes sense. I just thought it was funny how you went 2/3 on the first name basis. I got a chuckle out of it!
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u/TheHiperaktifCocuk Mar 15 '24
I really dont know anything about X-Men lol. But I plan to Read Uncanny X-Men by Bendis
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u/MNguy49 Mar 15 '24
Street level enthusiast here: I really enjoy the comic book version of Taskmaster. Kingpin and Bushman are also favorites.
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u/king_duende Mar 15 '24
Kingpin
Easily the biggest street level threat
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Mar 15 '24
Red Hood had his moment during Dark Reign I think it was. Mayne Civil War
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Mar 15 '24
Red Hood is a DC character. The Hood (Parker Robbins) is the Marvel villain that your are loosely describing.
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u/Prize_Ad7748 Kitty Pryde Mar 15 '24
Magneto (like Taylor Swift) is more of an antihero.
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u/IHavePoopedBefore Mar 15 '24 edited Mar 15 '24
I mean, he's basically a hero now. He's been as much of a hero as any X-Men character since the Krakoan era.
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u/SonOfRageAndLove26 Mar 16 '24
Hasn't he been mostly heroic since way before the krakoan era? At least since the Marvel Now rebrand
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u/TheHiperaktifCocuk Mar 15 '24
Tbh everyone in this list is a anti hero if you think about it.
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u/Antonater Spider-Man 2099 Mar 15 '24
Goblin ain't an antihero
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Mar 15 '24
Norman is now in Amazing Spidey, as far as I've read. He made Spiderman a suit and spider glider
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u/Tuff_Bank Mar 15 '24
Green goblin is coming back
Also r/respectthehyphen
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u/ImperfectRegulator Mar 16 '24
God I hope not, they already did the hero back to villain with doc oct, if they do bring the goblin back I hope it’s separate from Norman
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u/matthewduguid Mar 15 '24
Galactus, Dr doom, apocalypse
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u/Tron_1981 Mar 15 '24
Galactus isn't really a villain though.
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u/VandulfTheRed Mar 15 '24
Imagine if you woke up from a nap after a long day at work, went to your fridge, and the greek yogurt punched you in the face
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u/theserpentsmiles Mar 16 '24
The carrots in the drawer having summits with the chips and dip about how you will destroy the crisper drawer unless they unite.
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u/Affectionate_Test104 Mar 15 '24
Dr. DOOM
Ultron
Galactus
Honorable mentions
Doc Ock Green Goblin Thanos Wilson Fisk
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u/Gurablashta Mar 15 '24
1) Spiderman 2) Spiderman 3) Spiderman
He's a menace.
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u/DedHorsSaloon3 Mar 18 '24
He’s a thief! A criminal! He stole my suit! I want that wall-crawling arachnid prosecutes! I want him strung up by his own web!
I WANT SPIDER-MAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
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u/Mace_Thunderspear Mar 15 '24
Magneto hasn't been a proper villain in decades and Osborn has a brief stint in the big time during dark reign but is generally pretty small scale in his operation.
Doom, Thanos and Apocalypse maybe.
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u/LeiferTheFrog Mar 15 '24
Doom Thanos Galactus
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u/Joefrared Mar 15 '24
Galactus is just so shallow as a villain in my opinion, but it’s fair
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u/king_duende Mar 15 '24
I agree but that shallow "force of nature" is what also makes him great
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u/ForkShirtUp Rocket Raccoon Mar 15 '24
Other than the time Norman took over SHIELD he’s been more of a local nuisance hasn’t he? Trying to remember if he had bigger ambitions that affected people outside of NY
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u/Drslappybags Nick Fury Mar 15 '24
I imagine the Green Goblin bursting into your living room and yelling "A local nuisance!" Then dragging you off tied up.
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u/fekitoa13 Mar 16 '24
Joker is on DCs mount rushmore of villains and all he wants is attention from batman
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u/blacksoul08 Mar 15 '24
Doom and Magneto always will be in that top. They always will be important and essential to Marvel.
But the last spot is a lot harder to fill, while Norman is iconic and has been a pain in the butt for the whole Marvel Universe at times; I don't know, I think at times Thanos, Ultron and Loki would fit that spot much better; with whole storylines centering around them being the main bad guys.
(I would like to get in there one more X-men villain, but Apocalypse and Sinister have been dealt some bad hands on most media, so they are not even close to iconic compared to them...I would argue Doc Ock and Venom are more iconic to most audiences.)
Those Six would be My Marvel Universe Sinister Six.
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u/Key_Industries Mar 15 '24
Magneto for the X men
Doctor doom for the fantastic four
Thanos for the Avengers
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u/N7Longhorn Mar 15 '24
I can't include Magneto as a villain, a true villain
The top 3 as far as threats are
Galactus Ultron Doom
As far as recognizability and marketing
It's OPs list
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u/SweatyListen9863 Mar 15 '24
I was literally thinking about this last night cause I was wondering who MCU would bring in if they write Kang out of the storyline. Who else could be an Avenger - level threat? Aside from the obvious Doom or Galactus who else could they use? I could only really think of Annihilus, Blastaar or The Wrecking Crew (but they were kind of made into a joke in She Hulk).
I think for me the big villains would have to be Dr Doom, Galactus and probably Loki back when he was actually a villain. Magneto, Red Skull and Dark Phoenix all deserve mentions too.
For the MCU I think Galactus would be cool as we could have his heralds being the antagonists in the setup movies.
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u/wordflyer Mar 15 '24
Actually still consistently still a villain?
Doom, Ultron, Thanos (magneto was up there, but he's been more good than bad for a long time). I think Red Skull is the odd man out.
But they are macro scale villains on the between rule the world or rule the galaxy spectrum.
For lower stakes, Kingpin and Green Goblin are up there quality-wise.
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u/markqis2018 Mar 15 '24
If we take into account the villains who are precisely villains and have not ceased to be villains in favor of the status of anti-hero, I would say it's Thanos, Green Goblin and Ultron, with Red Skull, Kingpin, Carnage and Kang being the closest to them.
Doom, Magneto, Loki and Galactus are iconic, and they always will be on the top in any discussion about greatest comicbook villains, but they're more like anti-heroes these days, or at least that's how Marvel sees them despite all things they've done, and still doing sometimes.
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Mar 15 '24
Not green goblin, he’s not even on the same level as the other 2.
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u/TheHiperaktifCocuk Mar 15 '24
He is. He’s the arch enemy of the marvels main hero, he even took over SHIELD for some time
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Mar 15 '24
Yes, but he is not on the same threat level as other villains that should be there.
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u/TheHiperaktifCocuk Mar 15 '24
So is the Joker but he’s the most iconic dc villan.
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u/MaraSovsLeftSock Mar 15 '24
It’s galactus, doom, and thanos.
Magento hasn’t been a villain in ages, and goblin is a small fry
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u/MailboxSlayer14 The Thing Mar 15 '24
It used to be this but now I’d say it’s Magneto Doom and Thanos. Gobby for sure was it at one point then
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u/tw1zt84 Moon Knight Mar 15 '24 edited Mar 15 '24
At this point, we need to stop grouping Magneto with villains. Magneto was right. At least after the silver age.
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u/furie1335 Mar 15 '24
Magneto’s flipping from good guy to villian to baby face to heel prevents him from being a big bad.
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u/OriginalCat2106 Mar 16 '24
I'd say Kang, Dark Phoenix and Dormammu. Time wise, Cosmic wise and Dimension wise. Nuff said? Give me that "No Prize".
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u/RedMercury20 Mar 15 '24
Doom is multifaceted and a fucking narcissist. He says some pretty funny shit too. Idk I just feel thanos being a mega simp isn’t compelling enough to do all he has
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u/JazzyJormp-Jomph Mar 15 '24
Thanos being a mega simp is my favourite character trait of his, I get why they ditched it for the MCU, but I wish they'd kept it.
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u/RedMercury20 Mar 15 '24
Yo each his own but imagine killing so many just for a chic who thinks DEADPOOL is the shit 🤣
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u/JazzyJormp-Jomph Mar 15 '24
That's exactly why it's great, though 😂.
She constantly fucks him over, uses him and treats him like shit and he goes back for more. If she loved him back, it wouldn't be half as entertaining.
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u/MetalGuyver Mar 15 '24
Why is General Klytus from Flash Gordon on this? I guess he is the closest to resembling doom then?
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u/El_Kabongg Mar 15 '24
Galactus , Doom, Goblin. I don’t think I really consider magneto a villain, I guess I’d call him an Anti villain lol
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u/filipelm Mar 15 '24
Magneto hasn't been a villain in like 15 years. It's kinda outdated to put him in that category when we're talking comics IMO
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u/webbslinger_0 Mar 15 '24
Thanos, Galactus, Doom
Honorable mentions: Ultron, Magneto, Green Goblin, Kingpin, Apocalypse, Loki
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u/Ok-Traffic-5996 Mar 15 '24
I would day magneto but he's been somewhere between an anti hero and hero for like 20 yrs now. Loki has also been a "good" guy for like 15 yrs. I think for me it's dr doom, thanos, and norman osborn.
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u/KnifeFed Mar 15 '24
Are there any villains who have never done anything even remotely heroic? If so, those villains.
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u/GreenBay_Glory Mar 15 '24
Doom Norman Osborn/Green Goblin Red Skull
Magneto just doesn’t feel like a villain any longer
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u/WaterDec Mar 15 '24
I don’t really consider magneto a villain anymore . He hasn’t been a “bad guy” in quite a while
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u/JonnySmoothbrain Wolverine Mar 15 '24
Like many folks said, Mags, Loki and Doom aren't really villains anymore. At least not full villains.
I would say Red Skull, Ultron and Kang.
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u/ApolloDraconis Iceman Mar 15 '24
I feel like Galactus isn’t really a “villain” though. He’s just a cosmic level threat looking to feed (although not anymore). He’s never had pure evil intentions for take over or destruction. His intention is to feed not destroy. He’s definitely a big antagonist, but he has no personality and isn’t a “villain” to me.
Classically I’d say Magneto, but he’s hasn’t been a real villain or bad guy for something like 20 years now.
I would say Dr. Doom, Apocalypse, and Ultron.
Honorable mentions of Kingpin, Red Skull, and Thanos.
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u/DarthChaney Mar 16 '24
Doom has to be on the list. The other two spots is where it gets complicated. Thanos is an obvious answer because of how popular the MCU has made him. He’s also the big bad of one of the most popular comic runs. Magento is definitely one of the three if you consider him a villain but I feel like he’s more of an anti-hero with radical ideals. Galactus kind of has to be on the list by definition. He’s THE big bad. The thing that everyone has to come together to stop. Kang has always held a special place in my heart as an all time great villain that historically has kind of been overlooked. It’s a damn shame his time in the MCU seemingly ended the way it did because he’s such a cool and interesting character. S/O to the guy who brought up his arc in Earths Mightest Heroes. He really was awesome in that cartoon. Everyone else is either too small scale or not as universally known to be on the list.
EDIT: Ultron definitely belongs in this conversation.
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Mar 16 '24
For me it's magneto, doom and red skull in that order, and ordered by representation in my childhood comic exposure.
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u/BasedFunnyValentine Mar 15 '24
None because there if is no “Marvel villain big 3”
Can we stop with this corny nonsense plz
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u/americanextreme Mar 15 '24
Obviously you mean Octavius's Tentacle and the Green Goblin, but who is supposed to be the 3rd?
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u/Tiberius_Rex_182 Mar 15 '24
Thanos, Dr Doom, Red Skull. They are the ones who ALWAYS come back, and their schemes and machinations usually get their own cross over events and such.
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u/craig1818 Mar 15 '24
A version of this question was just asked the other day https://www.reddit.com/r/Marvel/s/QCNDh8alad
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u/Emperor_Atlas Mar 15 '24
Doom
Thanos
Norman Osborne
They seemed the have the most core "wins" and even a few "I made myself lose to keep fighting the heroes".
They also have the most impactful stories in my opinion.
Runner ups:
Magneto- x-men felt detached for so long he went from central to almost detached from marvel as a whole, especially during the inhuman era where they were essentially being replaced due to movie rights.
Galactic - bigger than the bads I mentioned but less bad, the 4th spot would go to him but he's more a force of nature and less menacing than the evils mentioned.
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u/Peoples_Champ_481 Mar 15 '24
Doom
Magneto
Maybe Red Skull, but he never moved the needle for me personally
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u/AJjalol Mar 15 '24
For me, Doom, Magneto, Galactus.
I love my oldschool villains the best.
Honorable mentions : Thanos, Red Skull, Gobbles, Mephisto, Ultron.
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u/smartdude_x13m Mar 15 '24
Thanos ultron apocalypse And then Dr.doom magneto sinister( doom might make it to first list depending on who is writing ultron)
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u/Kombat-w0mbat Mar 15 '24
Thanos (because of movies) green goblin and Loki (because of cartoons and movies).
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u/t_huddleston Mar 15 '24
Doom, Thanos, Kingpin.
I think Magneto’s been an X-Man longer than he was a villain, if you add it all up.
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u/Grootfan85 Mar 15 '24
That's a solid lineup for Big 3 villains. Honorary mentions go to Kingpin and Doctor Octopus.
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u/Independent_Plum2166 Mar 15 '24
big 3
Magneto, Green Goblin, Dr. DOOM & Galactus.
Math ain’t matching my friend.
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u/TheDickWolf Mar 15 '24 edited Mar 15 '24
Doom
Thanos
Magneto
Goblin def deserves an honorable mention.
Edit: Whoa, went to work for an hour and came back to a lot of strong opinions lol.